Bremen Products Co. v. Ledbetter-Johnson Co.

Hall, Judge.

The plaintiff’s cause of action against Carroll County must arise from the statute requiring a payment .bond of all contractors for public works payable to the governmental unit for which public work is done “for the use and protection of all subcontractors and all persons supplying labor, materials,” etc. This statute provides that, if the contractor does not give the bond, the contract shall not “be valid for any purpose.” It provides further, “If such payment bond . . . shall not be taken in manner and form as herein required, the corporation or body for which work is done…